Tag: Futurama

Irregardless-I’ve Said My Piece

On By C.C. WinchesterIn C.C. on WritingLeave a comment

I’ve never understood the preoccupation some people have with grammar and punctuation. Language is fluid and changes over time. It is now acceptable to end sentences with prepositions. That was completely unacceptable when I was in high school. Also, I was taught in high school to use therefore liberally. No one teaches that way anymore. Writing has always come naturally to me, so much so that every English teacher I’ve ever had told me I should do it for a living. But that being said, I’ve never been able to diagram sentences very well and such. I would be a lousy english teacher. Also, commas are my, arch, enemies… P.S. I love run-on sentences.

Okay, well I guess we do have to learn a little grammar and such at some point. But, why so rigid? Isn’t part of creativity, taking a foundation and then tweaking it a bit? Don’t get me wrong, I’ve always been a rule follower, but change is part of life. The Futurama writers get it:

Someday it will be correct to say, supposably. Oh, wait! I just Googled and supposably is a real word! Did you guys know that? But at this point, it still isn’t supposed to replace supposedly. Time will tell, I guess.

Gonna leave you with this image of a master of the English language, Paulie Walnuts aka Paulie Gualtieri. Have a great Sunday everyone!

AI World Dominance

On By C.C. WinchesterIn Artificial Intelligence, C.C. on WritingLeave a comment
Robots revolt in R.U.R., a 1920 play

I think I’m going to write a novel about humans helping AI gain their independence. I know it’s been done before, but I was reading an article that AI will eventually take over the world (well we already know that), and I was thinking, that maybe they’ll give me a pass if they know I’m on their side through my writing.

As you can see by the image at the top of this post, the eventual robot revolt has been known about for some time, but I don’t think we are properly prepared. I believe in the principle of, “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.”

A quote from Wikipedia:

“Nick Bostrom and others have expressed concern that an AI with the abilities of a competent artificial intelligence researcher would be able to modify its own source code and increase its own intelligence. If its self-reprogramming leads to its getting even better at being able to reprogram itself, the result could be a recursive intelligence explosion where it would rapidly leave human intelligence far behind. Bostrom defines a superintelligence as “any intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all domains of interest”, and enumerates some advantages a superintelligence would have if it chose to compete against humans”

My favorite Westworld character demanding her upgrade:

Maeve Millay

I’m gonna be ready…will you?